backward

Example Sentences

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“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

But her words reached backward, as if acknowledging both women—the one who endured and the one who emerged: Look at you.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Not only does she talk, but she recites venerable nursery rhymes, backward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

On Sunday they set a Big Ten tournament record with 34 assists on 40 baskets, the highlight being an over-the-head backward pass from Angela Dugalic to Kiki Rice in the fourth quarter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

At the small train station the guard turned and left us without a backward glance.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom